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The Center for Teaching Excellence is dedicated to keeping faculty, staff, and teaching assistants connected and informed. Browse through our teaching events and workshops to find ways we can support you. Our goal is to help build a community of faculty members from all fields to work together to share ideas and resources, strengthen teaching, and maximize learning. Graduate students are encouraged to attend all of our workshops and events!
Upcoming Events
The upcoming events calendar below includes both Center for Teaching Excellence facilitated events and workshops, as well as workshops held by other departments at UF. Events that count toward the Passport to Great Teaching Program are labeled with “passport categories” and “passport miles.” To read more about the Passport to Great Teaching Program, go to the Passport to Great Teaching webpage.
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Ongoing Events
The accordion below lists ongoing workshops and conferences facilitated by the Center for Teaching Excellence as well as other departments at UF. Events that count toward the Passport to Great Teaching Program are labeled under the description. To read more about the Passport to Great Teaching Program, visit the Passport to Great Teaching webpage.
First Year Faculty Teaching Academy
This series is designed for faculty in their first years of teaching at UF. Learn how to create a great learning experience for your students while saving time and frustration; we invite you to adapt and use the strategies that are right for you.
*This workshop series is worth 500 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program.
Instruction and Workshops from the George A. Smathers Libraries
Utilize the UF library resources by attending workshops or arranging instruction for yourself and students.
Passport to Great Teaching Workshops
The Passport to Great Teaching program offers faculty, staff, teaching assistants, post-docs and graduate students professional development teaching certificates that can be tailored to specific areas of interest.
*The upcoming events calendar contains the number of miles that each Passport to Great Teaching workshop is worth.
Teaching Portfolio Workshop Series
Learn the basics of developing a teaching portfolio and receive personalized feedback on your portfolio.
Below is a list of guided online workshops, offered by CTE and UFIT, that are included in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal.
Accessible Online Environments
This self-paced online offering provides instruction on how to design online courses with accessibility in mind. The course covers different types of accessibility needs and suggestions for making an online course more accessible.
*This workshop is worth 250 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. Applicable Passport Categories: Great Online Teaching, Student Focused Teaching
Aligning Assessments to Objectives
Aligning Assessments to Objectives provides participants the opportunity to analyze the relationship between course goals, student learning objectives, and assessments. Participants will focus on creating a course architecture for one module of content that promotes a student-centered approach to course design.
*This workshop is worth 100 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. Applicable Passport Categories: Creative Assessment
Effective Feedback allows participants to analyze the positive impact of utilizing informative evaluations on student work in order to improve performance. Participants will be introduced to strategies that can be implemented in the course design process to provide effective feedback for all class sizes.
*This workshop is worth 100 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. Applicable Passport Categories: Creative Assessment, Student Focused Teaching
Engaging Online Learners uses research-supported studies to examine and model best practice in online course design. Participants will experience the online learning environment from the student perspective while working through activities intended to demonstrate mastery of a variety of topics including designing for student success, aligning student learning objectives, and creating engaging and accessible presentations.
*This workshop is worth 250 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. Applicable Passport Categories: Active Learning, Great Online Teaching, Student Focused Teaching
NoWallsTeaching Summer 2020 Guided Workshop
The NoWallsTeaching Summer 2020 guided workshop will help you to shift your face-to-face assignments and activities to a synchronous online course. Use your syllabus along with a Canvas template to plan and create a quality learning experience for your students. Share your teaching challenges to get ideas and suggestions from colleagues and CTE staff.
*This workshop is worth 300 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. Applicable Passport Categories: Great Online Teaching
Technology to Improve Instructor Presence
In this instructional development opportunity, participants will explore strategies and tools to create an effective online instructor presence and incorporate technology into teaching. Participants will practice creating engaging and interactive instructional videos.
*This workshop is worth 250 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. Applicable Passport Categories: Great Online Teaching, Student Focused Teaching
Using Rubrics and Feedback to Improve Student Performance
In this instructional development opportunity, participants will review best practices of building effective rubrics and providing quality feedback in eLearning. Through varied activities, participants will be equipped with the skills necessary to implement rubrics to improve student performance.
*This workshop is worth 250 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. Applicable Passport Categories: Creative Assessment, Student Focused Teaching
Some online workshops are offered throughout the entire year and don’t have a start or end date. A list of these ongoing online workshops can be found below:
Center for Teaching Excellence Workshop Recordings
View our catalog of past workshop recordings! Please note that viewing these recordings cannot be applied toward miles within the Passport to Great Teaching program. For Passport miles, you must attend the live sessions.
*This workshop is worth 100 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal. Applicable Passport Categories: Cultural Competencies, Student Focused Teaching, Tackling Tough Talks
Great Online Course SeriesThis online workshop is meant to help faculty make the best use of technology in their teaching.
*This workshop series is worth 500 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal. Applicable Passport Categories: Digital Literacy, Great Online Teaching
How to be a GREAT Online or Hybrid TAThis online workshop provides TA’s teaching online or hybrid courses with a solid teaching foundation.
*This workshop is worth 100 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal. Applicable Passport Categories: Great Online Teaching, Student Focused Teaching
Magna CampusMagna Campus delivers quick video recordings on a variety of teaching topics from highly respected instructors. Login to Canvas to access the UF Magna Campus application and explore the 20-Minute Mentors and Magna Commons Online Seminars to find teaching strategies and solutions to common classroom challenges. (Canvas login required)
*Magna Campus activities are worth 20 miles each in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal.
No Walls Teaching Summer 2020 Guided WorkshopThe NoWallsTeaching Summer 2020 guided workshop will help you to shift your face-to-face assignments and activities to a synchronous online course. Use your syllabus along with a Canvas template to plan and create a quality learning experience for your students. Share your teaching challenges to get ideas and suggestions from colleagues and CTE staff.
*This workshop is worth 300 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal. Applicable Passport Categories: Great Online Teaching
TA Orientation and TA Principles & StrategiesYour work as a TA in the classroom is a critical element for student success. Learn good teaching practices to support your students! (Canvas login required)
*This workshop is worth 400 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal. Applicable Passport Categories: Student Focused Teaching
UF+Quality Matters CREW TrainingHelp your colleagues develop exemplary courses and become a UF+QM course reviewer! (Canvas login required)
*This workshop is worth 100 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. Applicable Passport Categories: UF + QM
These workshops can be found on the upcoming events calendar located at the top of this page.
Passport to Great Teaching Workshops
The Passport to Great Teaching program offers faculty, staff, teaching assistants, post-docs and graduate students professional development teaching certificates that can be tailored to specific areas of interest.
*The upcoming events calendar contains the number of miles that each Passport to Great Teaching workshop is worth.
Affordable UF: Beyond the Traditional Textbook
Learn why you should use Open Educational Resources and how to integrate them in your course.
*This conference is worth 250 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal.
Interface is an opportunity to recognize innovative faculty, provide a forum for professors to share their work with other disciplines and foster interdisciplinary collaborations on future projects.
*This conference is worth 250 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal.
The UF Team-Based Learning (TBL) Workshop is designed for educators who are interested in implementing a new learning method into their classrooms – in person or online. TBL makes teaching more rewarding for educators and learning more successful for students. Taught by UF Pharmacy and Medicine faculty and TBL experts, Drs. Michelle Farland and Wayne McCormack, this event will teach educators how to elevate classrooms in any field using a flipped-classroom learning method.
*This conference is worth 250 miles in the Passport to Great Teaching program. In order to receive miles, you must complete a reflection in the Passport Portal.
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